[Embolization of multiple pulmonary arteriovenous fistula in a case of Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome with brain abscess].
A forty-year-old woman who developed brain abscess was found to Rendu-Osler-weber syndrome with multiple arteriovenous fistulas of the left lung. Therapeutic embolization of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas was performed for the prevention against brain abscess and improvement of hypoxia.
Yokogawa
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S
Department of Radiology, Chibune Hospital.
Hirayama
A
A
Ohishi
Y
Y
Shimizu
M
M
Hirota
S
S
Adachi
S
S
Sako
M
M
Kohno
M
M
D000328:Adult; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013683:Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*